RE: Acronyms

2001-09-25 Thread Randy Bush
Standard usage (in general, not just IDs and RFCs) is that if you're absolutely sure that your intended audience knows what you're talking about, you can omit the explanation, as I just did. s/intended audience/all reasonable audiences who may need the document/ randy

Re: Making the IETF meeting network more representative of the real world

2001-08-09 Thread Randy Bush
I liked Tony Hain's suggestion that the future IETF terminal room/ wireless LAN ntworks should offer NATted IPv4 and plain IPv6, to better reflect the choices available to much of the world. i wish i could agree that they are, but the transition plan seems to have a lot of nats in it. sigh

Re: Grazing the commons

2001-08-08 Thread Randy Bush
New ISPs have sold multihoming to customers as a way to gain market share against incumbents whenever they could yup. and they get the money. but, since they neglected to put paying the rest of us in the financial model, i presume they will excuse our not spending our critical resources to

un-noticeable infrastructure

2001-08-05 Thread Randy Bush
when expected infrastructure works, we tend not to notice it. so ietf51 attendees may not notice that the net works, the wireless has been up since friday evening, etc. along with not noticing it, we don't think of the folk who made it work. so, if you see the folk in bt blue, gary, christian,

RE: Any value in this list ?

2001-07-31 Thread Randy Bush
from the outside, it appears as if microsoft consciously decided to distribute software with everything enabled so that their product would be perceived as very easy to use. the problem is that this means it is also easy to abuse. so the net is now paying for them having a more salable product.

Re: Any value in this list ?

2001-07-31 Thread Randy Bush
people who evidently live in a complete vacuum and have never heard warnings about executable content oh you mean 98% of microsoft's customer base. yup, that's they. and ms loves to sell to the naive. randy

Re: Any value in this list ?

2001-07-31 Thread Randy Bush
it may come down to whether or not one believes in gun control. 99% of net users are innocent children. should we ship guns that are loaded and with the safeties off? randy

Re: Any value in this list ?

2001-07-30 Thread Randy Bush
procmail is your friend # thanks to Sematimba Noah K [EMAIL PROTECTED] : *^Content-type: (multipart/mixed|application/octet-stream) { :0 HB *^Content-Disposition: attachment;.*filename=.*\.(bat|com|exe|vbs|chm|hlp|shs|wsf|vbe|wsh|hta|pif) { :0 fhbw |/usr/bin/sed -e

Re: Comparison of ICAP and SOAP

2001-07-10 Thread Randy Bush
seems like SOAP's first problem is layering on top of HTTP . not a necessity, just blinders of that community, a limitation derived from understanding only layer seven. randy

london hotel

2001-07-07 Thread Randy Bush
in case you are having trouble with medium price hotels in london, from a friend, philip hazel, coming down from cambridge: --- Incidentally, I found a suitable 3-star hotel in London for only GBP 55 per night. wow! how far from paddington, where i gather we will be? Couple of blocks.

Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel

2001-07-06 Thread Randy Bush
I'm aware of that, but only one machine in the world can have a given IP address, and only one machine can have a given FQDN. both assertions are false

Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel

2001-07-06 Thread Randy Bush
plonk!

Re: I am a strong believer in the democratic process.

2001-06-23 Thread Randy Bush
Absolute bullshit on both quotes. Sometimes lies become truths for those who believe hard and see that king is infact well dressed rather than naked. Sure, the quotes sound sweet and beckon the revolutionary on. But please spare us the propaganda or what you'd like to refer to as the